CASE STUDY

A leading energy and gas industry retailer required support with credit collection activities and help to manage debt or financial hardship.

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  • How effective credit management controls achieved credit and collections savings of around $1.9 million
  • How increased performance visibility achieved bad debt reductions of $3.2 million
  • How debtor hardship mitigation controls and compliance achieved a 96.5% increase in compliance quality targets.


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Energy retailer achieved bad debt reductions of $3.2 million through credit collection optimisation

savings

Credit and collections savings of around $1.9 million

reduce bad debt

A reduction of $3.2 million in bad debts

compliance quality targets

A 96.5% increase in compliance quality targets

THE CLIENT

One of Australia’s largest retailers in the energy and gas industry.

THE CHALLENGE

The client required a partner to support with credit collection activities and help manage debtor financial hardship, including back-of-house processing. Compliance with regulatory requirements was essential in choosing the right partner.

THE SOLUTION

Probe CX created a credit and collections solution that was implemented in two phases. The focus of both phases was to implement effective credit management controls that maintained a positive debtor-creditor relationship. This would lead to increased performance visibility and help keep their debt recovery bottom line controlled and managed.

PHASE ONE
45 customer solution specialists were onboarded and trained to undertake outbound and inbound early collection calls. The key focus of the training was to maximise the collection of funds while being empathetic and sensitive to difficult debtor situations in line with credit collection compliance guidelines.
PHASE TWO
Probe CX expanded to over 150 employees for the client to support an additional 26 back-of-house transaction types. These included:
  • Portfolio management
  • Credit card payments
  • Direct debit management
  • Disconnections
  • Pre mercantile correspondence
  • Deceased estates.

THE RESULT

Since implementing the solutions, maintaining a focus on debtor hardship mitigation controls and compliance, the client has seen the following results:

credit and collections
Credit and collections savings of around $1.9 million
reduction of 3.2M
A reduction of $3.2 million in bad debts when compared to past-year results
target
A 96.5% increase in compliance quality targets
conversion to presentation
A ‘conversion to presentation’ rate of 88% for outbound reminder calls
36% reduction
A 36% reduction from a 60 - 90 day debt profile to a 31 - 60 day debt profile.

"Partnership approach and ease of doing business

is important to me and makes most other things simple to resolve. The focus on customer service is obvious and the focus on ensuring they meet the customers' needs is also quite evident at all levels of the organisation. Senior Stakeholder